James Turrell Quotes

Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

James Turrell

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Her

• You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Job

• I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Movie
  • I Love
  • Premiere

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Advice

• 'It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule.'' - The Secret Kingdom

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature

• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Law

• Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Book

• We must plow through the whole of language.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Home
  • Character

• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Funeral

• At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

  

  Mary Bono
  • People

• I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Good
  • Great
  • Today

• We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

  

  Raul Grijalva
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Money
  • Help
  • Career

• It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog. 16

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

  

  James Turrell